World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) President Riccardo Fraccari has called for a second 2020 Olympic venue in the Tokyo Metropolitan area to take priority over plans to consider holding games in Fukushima.

More consideration must be given to how the one venue still to be decided for Tokyo 2020 is due to host wheelchair basketball finals and Olympic volleyball matches, the President of the Japanese Paralympic Committee (JPC) has warned.

Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori admits that they will be unable to finalise their Olympic and Paralympic budgets until the division of roles between different Governments involved in the Games has been identified.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) administrative staff have visited the Yokohama Arena venue currently being considered to host indoor volleyball at Tokyo 2020 here today as a Coordination Commission inspection visit began.

Rowing and canoe sprint will remain at the Sea Forest course on Tokyo Bay during the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games but a final decision over the volleyball venue has been postponed until Christmas, it was decided here at a meeting of a Four Party Working Group.

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Fact of the day

Hulking Swedish actor Dolph Lundgren is best known to movie fans for his role in the film Rocky IV in 1985. For the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta he was selected by the United States Olympic Committee as the team leader of the American modern pentathlon team. Though he attended the Games and marched with the US delegation in the Opening Ceremony, his role was largely honorary. It was bestowed on Lundgren as a result of the time he spent training with the team in preparation for his role in the film Pentathlon, where he starred as an East German Olympic gold medalist on the run from an abusive coach played by David Soul. As a result of the time he spent with the team, Lundgren became a major supporter of the campaign to keep modern pentathlon on the Olympic programme.

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